Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
BETTE MIDLERWe are all part of the ecosystem.
More Bette Midler Quotes
-
-
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?
BETTE MIDLER -
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
BETTE MIDLER -
it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we’ll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.
BETTE MIDLER -
A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I’ve chosen not to be.
BETTE MIDLER -
My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That’s what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
BETTE MIDLER -
I haven’t left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we’re screwed!
BETTE MIDLER -
I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.
BETTE MIDLER -
I want it all – and I would like it delivered.
BETTE MIDLER -
Do I understand this right? I’m being marked down?
BETTE MIDLER -
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
BETTE MIDLER -
I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!
BETTE MIDLER -
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
BETTE MIDLER -
I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLER -
I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
BETTE MIDLER -
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLER -
When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
BETTE MIDLER -
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
BETTE MIDLER -
That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!
BETTE MIDLER -
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that’s why I’m on TV. I wasn’t going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place – I’ve always done that.
BETTE MIDLER -
I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
BETTE MIDLER -
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
BETTE MIDLER -
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
BETTE MIDLER -
Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
BETTE MIDLER -
I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can’t stop it.
BETTE MIDLER -
When it’s time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
BETTE MIDLER -
Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time – if not of my block – being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.
BETTE MIDLER